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Unusual bonsai exhibit debuts

A new exhibit at the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection gives the outdoor museum of living art a new look.

Artful Environments, which opened to the public last Saturday, is described by organizers as the first exhibit in North America to combine bonsai with contemporary American art in a way that involves abstract qualities of line, form, texture and color.

Ten Northwest artists are collaborating in the exhibit. Their work  painting, photo-emulsion imaging, stonework, copper and bronze, woodwork and ceramics  will be displayed with selected bonsai from Weyerhauser Co.s permanent collection.

The collection was established in 1989 by Weyerhauser as part of the states centennial celebration.

The bonsai displays, lectures and special exhibits are free to the public and open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday through Wednesday. The collection is closed Thursday and Friday. It can be found by taking South 320th Street to Weyerhauser Way South and following the signs.

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